Independence Day! Astronaut VistA is now "Nothing to install, nothing to maintain"

[Ignacio Valdes]

Houston, Texas 07/04/2017

On this Independence Day Astronaut, LLC http://astronautvista.com announces the next level of freedom for Astronaut VistA: Full virtualization. All applications run in a browser.

"Nothing to install, nothing to maintain. It just works. Our #1 rated application runs in any browser." Says Astronaut, LLC CEO Ignacio Valdes, MD, MS. "Our users are free to focus on patient care. No software installation is necessary, upgrades just happen. Total freedom. No maintenance headaches on staff, greater security, higher reliability, and faster responsiveness.  This takes Astronaut VistA to the next level for all users and IT support staff. Poor local internet? No problem. Peculiar local security block? Still works."

Astro-CPRS now simply runs through any browser with HTML5 support. Just point at a URL and login to Astro-CPRS, VistA Clinical Scheduling or Vitals. Nothing local to install.  Upgrades are handled by Astronaut seamlessly. 

"Nothing to install, nothing to maintain." 

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Astronaut, LLC http://astronautvista.com has many, many firsts in the VistA world including the first VistA in the cloud, the first automated VistA installer, and now the first fully virtualized, browser-based VistA application suite. 

Figure: Astro-CPRS on an iPhone

Figure: VistA Clinical Scheduling virtualized running in a browser:

[Vernon Oberholzer]

Is this for real ? Is this a complete F/OSS stack ?
The details are so sketchy I don't know whether to applaud or exercise a bit of skepticism.

[ivaldes]

It is for real. 

I've seen many patients with it already in multiple real clinical circumstances. I've stress tested it on a slow DSL line simultaneously streaming Netflix to further degrade the connection on a WiFi on a modest power laptop. It works very well. It is often much faster than a local CPRS. 

VistA the server is a complete FOSS stack but CPRS has for the most part not been a complete FOSS stack considering it requires Windows and Delphi which are both proprietary.

This latest development is Windows Server 2012 R2 with a virtualization layer. It is not a FOSS stack, at least not yet. 

[ivaldes]

The Netflix sci-fi movie used to degrade the connection was truly lousy by the way. It was the one about the couple on vacation in Iceland and everyone on Earth except for them disappears.  :-)

[Kekoa]

Awesome and congrats. 

For others wanting to build something similar, you can implement a web RDP gateway such as Apache Guacamole. (We did discuss this approach many moons ago here.)